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Sawfish is a window manager
Window manager

A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface....
 for the X Window System
X Window System

The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions....
. Formerly known as Sawmill, the name was changed because another software program had the same name (a commercial web log analysis program).

Distinctively, Sawfish uses a Lisp-like scripting language
Scripting language

A scripting language, script language or extension language, is a programming language that allows some control of a single or many Application software....
, rep, for all of its code, making it particularly easy to extend. For example, it can incorporate keybindings for XMMS
XMMS

The X Multimedia System is a free software audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems.History ...
.

Sawfish does not come with a panel
Panel (computer software)

In graphical computer software a panel is :* A Widget commonly packaged as part of a Widget toolkit for a graphical user interface. See toolbar and dialog box...
 and was used with the GNOME
Gnome

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and wiktionary:subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus....
 desktop environment
Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface that is based on the desktop metaphor which can be seen on most modern personal computers today....
 until it was replaced by Metacity
Metacity

Metacity is a compositing window manager used by default in the GNOME desktop environment. The development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it is released under the GNU General Public License....
 in GNOME 2.2.

The latest released version, 1.3.4, was released on 29 August 2008.








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Sawfish is a window manager
Window manager

A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of window within a windowing system in a graphical user interface....
 for the X Window System
X Window System

The X Window System is a computing software system and network protocol that provides a graphical user interface for networked computers. It implements the X Window System protocols and architecture and provides windowing system on raster graphics Visual display units and manages Keyboard and pointing device control functions....
. Formerly known as Sawmill, the name was changed because another software program had the same name (a commercial web log analysis program).

Distinctively, Sawfish uses a Lisp-like scripting language
Scripting language

A scripting language, script language or extension language, is a programming language that allows some control of a single or many Application software....
, rep, for all of its code, making it particularly easy to extend. For example, it can incorporate keybindings for XMMS
XMMS

The X Multimedia System is a free software audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems.History ...
.

Sawfish does not come with a panel
Panel (computer software)

In graphical computer software a panel is :* A Widget commonly packaged as part of a Widget toolkit for a graphical user interface. See toolbar and dialog box...
 and was used with the GNOME
Gnome

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and wiktionary:subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus....
 desktop environment
Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface that is based on the desktop metaphor which can be seen on most modern personal computers today....
 until it was replaced by Metacity
Metacity

Metacity is a compositing window manager used by default in the GNOME desktop environment. The development of Metacity was started by Havoc Pennington and it is released under the GNU General Public License....
 in GNOME 2.2.

The latest released version, 1.3.4, was released on 29 August 2008.

See also

  • xwem
    XWEM

    XWEM is the "XEmacs Window Manager" written in Emacs Lisp and run in XEmacs....
    , a window manager "based" on Emacs
    Emacs

    Emacs is a class of feature-rich text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. Emacs has, perhaps, more editing commands than any other editor or word processor, numbering over 1,000....
     (a ELisp module for being run by XEmacs
    XEmacs

    XEmacs is a graphical user interface- and text terminal-based text editor which runs on almost any Unix-like operating system as well as Microsoft Windows....
    ).
  • StumpWM
    Stumpwm

    StumpWM is a tiling window manager for POSIX-compliant Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System. It started as a rewrite of the ratpoison window manager....
    , a tiling window manager
    Tiling window manager

    In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor....
     in Common Lisp
    Common Lisp

    Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in American National Standards Institute standard document Information Technology - Programming Language - Common Lisp, formerly X3.226-1994 ....
    .

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